Skimming and Scanning

Quick reading technique

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skit

• Skimming and Scanning

To get a general overview of the story

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

To find specific facts/information

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

Find your name on a list.

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

Reading a text quickly to get the main idea

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

Find out the main plot of a book for selection.

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

What technique of reading do you use to find a word in a dictionary?

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Skipping

• Skit

If you are reading to find your team’s score, you are ...

• Skimming

• Scanning

• careful reading

• Skipping

See what happened in the news in a paper or on a website.

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Careful reading

• Skipping

Scan the TV program to find out who presents “Great Movie Mistakes”.

“20.00 Great Movie Mistakes

Robert Webb uncovers the clangers and gaffes in Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters.”

• Robert Webb

• John Stansfield

• Kate Humble

• John Legend